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AYWalton: doing fine. I see that AAHGS has extended their deadline to submit to speak for the conference in Nashville! Does alt have a new name?

, Negro, or Black alt: Oops, got cut off in mid sentence

AYWalton: Negro, or Black alt

Seventies: oops... lol

AYWalton: and what's up with that comma in the fron, , Negro, or Black alt? (fron = front)

Seventies: what was your question alt?

AYWalton: lol

, Negro, or Black alt: I was asking about younger folks not liking the terms colored, Negro an/or black and was asking Seventies how she felt about them

AYWalton: a hush fell over the crowd. Don't all of you folks talk at the same time, now. wassup alt in your part of the world

Seventies: well, they are somewhat ambiguous. But I can only speak for myself.

, Negro, or Black alt: just hanging in there and getting read for Spring AYWalton

AYWalton: I agree with that about Spring. Can't wait for warmer weather to get here. who just signed on? I heard the welcome message. Let me go check.

Seventies: hello karoshi8

AYWalton: hello karoshi8

, Negro, or Black alt: my thought on the terms... I'm old enough to remember when all of them were "in vogue".... to simply ignore or deny them is to ignore or deny thatpart of my history.

karoshi8: Hello everyone!

Seventies: I remember when my grandmother would refer to herself as colored.

karoshi8: My family has always used colored.

AYWalton: I think we were colored up to the late 50s, then became Negro, and by the 70s we turned black. But I am not sure what people said in the 40s and 30s.

Seventies: My issue with it primarily is that its not what we decided to call ourselves. Which is why I am comfortable with African American

AYWalton: and depending on my mood---I can be selective on which term I use.

alt: I was in the late 30's & all of the 40's when we were "colored" or "Negro"

Selma: Ah La James Brown...I am black and proud

AYWalton: So they were both used at that time?

Selma: I think so AY..Colored and Negro

alt: in my recollection AYWalton

AYWalton: I guess that's true---I know that even in some city directories from that time, one will see the "c" behind some names. Also newspaper articles also referred to as John Smith, colored, especially if there was a crime committed.

Seventies: Being black and African-American is what I know.. I noticed that too AYWalton

alt: right Selma, James Brown made "Black" popular.... prior to that you might of had a fight on your hands if you called someone Black.

AYWalton: absolutely.

Seventies: That's absolutely sad. . .

alt: sad, but true Seventies

Seventies: Now the attitude in some cases is just the same.... just different name calling.

AYWalton: Of course I admit to using the term Negro if my mood or reaction warrants it to make a point.

alt: and in my younger days a male person of color was almost never referred to as a "Man", almost always it was "Boy" regardless of age.

AYWalton: How many us have said to someone, "Negro, puleeze"?

alt: and woman of color were "Gals"

AYWalton: (my typing is terrible today.) but men when they speak as comrades to each other call each other man. And women lovingly call each other gurrrrlllll....

alt: did I say hello karoshi8? if not, hello LOL

AYWalton: I still do when with a good friend.

karoshi8: Hello alt.

AYWalton: If I am comfortable that long drawn out gurrrrrllllllll comes out.

karoshi8: Just listening to the conversation.

AYWalton: so what are folks working on genealogically these days? I have some blogs to update that I am behind on. and materials for Samford that I have to prepare.

alt: Today, I'm ready to whup me some a&& when I hear a white person speak of a colored gal, or colored boy LOL

Selma: LOL

AYWalton: I hear ya alt.

Seventies: alt, I hear that from time to time. And I have to walk away.

Selma: So alt how did we get into the Colored, Negro, Black, Afro American, African American discussion

alt: with smoke coming out of your ears Seventies LOL LOL some things I mentioned from reading of the younger folks and their impressions Selma

Seventies: Last summer I had to walk away from a 'slaves had it good' conversation... I was at the court house. lol If I had said something, I would've had a case...

alt: moving on

karoshi8: alt are you going to the thing in Cincinnati at the end of the month?

alt: the end of April ..25-27 April OGS Conf //// yes, I hope to attend.

karoshi8: Oh, I thought it was this month. Never mind! I was going to go.

Selma: Looks like a great line up alt

alt: unless you are speaking of another event karoshi8

karoshi8: No, I don't think so.

alt: I think so Selma

Selma: OGS conference draws a lot of folks

karoshi8: The Pickaway County AA Hertiage Association is having a dinner at the beginning of April that I want to go to. Honoring Adams, Haithcock, Lett, Redman, and Tibbs families.

alt: I've been to OGS for the last 9 years and they are doing a tremendousmjog of focusing on AA genealogy & research. oh, that sounds wonderful karoshi8

Seventies: Aren't those lines your wife's and yours alt?

alt: tremendous job

karoshi8: I figured I would come up to Ohio at the end of March to catch the OGS thing and then go to that. Never mind! I can't imagine willingly staying in Ohio for close to a month.

Selma: Lett's..trying to remember who else researches that surname

alt: Seventies not direct lines Seventies ... a different set of Adams and the others are collateral lines many in our "circle" research the Lett lines Selma

Seventies: ok I recall Irita mentioning the Letts

Selma: Ok maybe it was Irita

alt: yep Seventies

karoshi8: Letts are big. I just connected my Kentucky Penman's to a Lett family.

alt: in KY karoshi8?

karoshi8: Yup. Very strange find.

alt: Robert Lett from CA is from the KY Lett's.

karoshi8: I'll have to look, but I think my Penman went up to Ohio and found the Muskingum county Letts. I think.

alt: a name from the past...anyone hear anything from John"jt" Logan? that sounds reasonable karoshi8

Selma: From Philly?

alt: yep Selma

Selma: Been a long time

alt: sure has been

Selma: What about forgetting his name (my bad) was always in lunchbunch chat..lives in CA

alt: ET

Selma: Yes...still miss him

alt: AYW mentioned Samford... are you going again this year Selma?

Selma: Nope...

alt: okay

karoshi8: Have a good day everyone. I'm going to try and be productive. Wish me luck!